US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle platform, autonomous driving system, and vehicle control interface box" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,706, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle platform, autonomous driving system, and vehicle control interface box" was invented by Yusuke Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Toshikazu Hioki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VP includes a base vehicle and a VCIB. The VCIB interfaces between the VP and an ADS. The VCIB is configured to receive a power mode command that requests control of a power mode of the VP from the ADS. The power mode includes a sleep mode in which a vehicle power is in an off condition, a wake mode in which the VCIB is awake, an ignition on mode in which the vehicle...